When I use it to find the Firefox website so I can download their browser instead. Or I wonder if there's some lonely person out there who takes it personally, for the company (of Microsoft) when people like me use them to get something better than them. I wonder if it causes that imaginary person stress. Anyway, I like Firefox way better. See ya later, Internet Explorer.

Well, fancy ads with dubstep and Iron Man with some cabaret girls isn't going to entirely stop me from going back there.... yet...... .
*puts on Murdoc Gorillaz voice* For now, Google Chrome is where it's at, baby! *Lots of coughing and spluttering*
But you needed to use IE to get it.
Plus IE is still needed for manually doing Windows updates.
Actually IE is needed for many things, you can't just remove it, you need it. What would happen if Firefox corrupted and you needed to download it again?
MS are not concerned about your browser, as much as your Operating System.
For a long time Windows was the choice of all standard users. Not MacOS has come leaps and bounds the US use that more than Microsoft. Especially with iPhones; iPods and a million other MacOS applications.
I was a devout MS user (plus Linux of course) but I've found that I've needed to use MacOS on many of my devices.
As a by the way, I STILL use WinXP, because I know everything that's going on in it. Plus it also may be because I really want Windows7 64Bit, but I can't afford the mega fast cool system that I want with it.
Anyway, just saying that IE is still required at times.
And MS know it ;)
watch this, :)